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Who's your favorite narrator /lit/?

>> No.14494188

Quentin, because his portions have the best prose.

>> No.14494213

>>14494165
Quentin, perhaps that’s the pleb answer, but it’s mine. In As I Lay Dying Addie is my favorite.

>When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said, Quentin, I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is the illusion of philosophers and fools.

>> No.14494480

>>14494213
what does the quote mean.. like what’s the pocket watch gotta do with victories?

>> No.14494490

>>14494165
Benjy. Without Benjy's chapter is a flurry of all things to come and that flurry's contexualising in the following chapters is what makes the book what it is. The other chapters are good, but Benjy is what elevates the sound and the fury so high.